August 25
2008

Proselytizing for Joss.
The blog "Izgad" compares Firefly and its Browncoats to the UFO cult described by Leon Festinger in When Prophecy Fails.

I enjoyed the comparison, though Browncoats don't exactly have a belief that is refuted by empirical evidence, although I suppose you could declare Fox an empire and our cancellation an imperial event. ;)

I didn't get fanatic from him. More like, somebody who's pretty busy but loves Whedon and tries to get others to love Joss too without really being a dyed-in-the-wool Browncoat. Sort of like me before I found the interwebs. I didn't even know about Browncoats (as a group) until I found BC, and that was only a month before the movie came out.

I refute that TamaraC - I am on that site, and I am feeling quite pretty!

Unless I'm confused and it's another board, too.many.boards. Interesting little article though, although, I think it's still possible to be a Browncoat/fan of Joss and not really mind too much if some of your friends (or the world), aren't.

I don't remember any "ugly" on the old Serenitymovie site. I remember a lot of fun. Posts from Joss and Nathan, team challenges, haiku, trivia.... And lots of excitement about the movie coming out soon.
I found it very welcoming to everyone, unlike some of the other boards.

Cute piece, although I don't think the comparison works. Big difference between a group that believes in a guy that tells them things he can not prove and things that turn out to be false and a group that loves something they see and then buy and get together to ask for more.

I see what he is saying though. Browncoats said "This is a great show and it should last many seasons." When that did not come to pass, we/they needed new fans to prove that even though it did not get many seasons, it was still a great show.
I don't think it works perfectly, I think that it is indeed, as he says and SNT quotes, that we simply want it clear that Joss did not make a mistake. I don't feel particularly vindicated if I hear the that Firefly is still in Amazon's top 5 or whatever, but some might.

bubblecat, that's the one. :) Some people seem to think it's dead, but we're still going strong!

I think for a Judaic scholar who doesn't get out much, it's a nice little article. After all, the poor boy is obviously susceptible to brainwashing; he states he goes to the Ohio State University. Silly boy! Everyone knows that OSU is Alliance and the University of Michigan is the Independents. ;)